On a side note, do what feels comfortable with you. If you're new to weight loss, you might want to take it slower at first. Try to identify the really bad habits you have and work on them, on at a time. For example, if you drink a lot of juice and soda (so a lot of liquid calories), try cutting down. If you could drink just water, it's the best.

If snacks are an issue for you, prepare healthy snacks in advance so you won't turn to junk food or suggary stuff. One of the things I had problems with recently was not bringing my lunch at work and buying something in a restaurant or at the cafeteria. This is food for which I didn't have much control on what was in it. It will almost always be more calories than my own lunch. I'm working on bringing my lunct to work (did it every day this week).

Once you feel in control, you can start calorie counting (quite daunting at first) or car counting or whatever you choose. It's just easier not to dive in full on at first. It's easier to say "I'll cut liquid calories as much as I can" than starting to count calories. By targeting those goals, you get some motivation going and it's easier to move to a more structured plan at that point.

Yes! Getting out of the 300s is my mini goal as well. I weighed yesterday afternoon and was 298, but my weight fluctuates so much between weigh-days that I don't take any number seriously before then. My official weigh-day is every Monday morning after my shower in the buff, lol.

And to you, uniquelyme, I too have noticed changes! Pants' and tops fitting looser, face looking less... puffy, not wheezing as much after going up stairs at work, and then of course the unfortunate one of my bras also fitting looser, haha *tear*. Also, I seriously think my coworkers are battling themselves internally about asking if I've lost weight. It feels like they're staring harder and like so many of them have got something to say that they're not saying when we make chitchat. I'll be going back to work after a two-week vacation on the 13th hopefully only having lost, so we'll see if anyone says anything then. That's another mini-goal of mine except I can't control it; having a coworker notice I've lost, lol.